Chapter 24: The Showdown
Xu Kangdi was a little unsteady, stretched out his hand and pointed at Xu Nankui, couldn't say a word for a long time, and finally seemed to have unloaded the strength of his whole body, slowly put it down, and spit out a sentence with difficulty: "How dare you?" ”
Xu Nankui rolled up her sleeves, revealing the scars on her arms one by one, counting them one by one, and said while counting: "Father, you see, these are all the scars on my body over the years. ”
Xu Nankui pointed to a scar close to his elbow and said, "This one was left by the injury when it was plugged in the side, you see, it can still be pinched and bleeding now!" ”
As soon as Xu Nankui exerted his strength, the scabbed wound re-emerged with blood, and it came out little by little, like a red wolfberry, but it was really shocking in Xu Kangdi's eyes, and there were indescribable palpitations.
Xu Nankui pointed to dozens of tiny scars near the bottom of his wrist and said, "And these, even earlier, it was the injury I suffered from the concubine, and now I can also pinch the blood." ”
Xu Nankui looked up at Emperor Xu Kang, smiled, and asked, "Father, do you want to give it a try, Erchen thinks it's very fun." ”
Xu Kangdi carefully held Xu Nankui's arm, gently stroked it with his hand and asked, "How can this be?" Why? How dare they? ”
Xu Nankui asked, "Which one does the father ask?" If you ask on the battlefield, it's so simple, either you die or I live? I asked for the lives of 8,000 elites, what is it if they leave a little wound on me? ”
Xu Nankui withdrew her hand from Xu Kangdi's hand, pinched the scars left by those concubines hard, and instantly turned purple, and Xu Kangdi stopped her.
Xu Nankui said nonchalantly: "These, it's just that the old lady doesn't like me, sometimes, people's disgust is so inexplicable, if you move me, you won't move your mother, and you won't move Bo Xing again, right?" ”
Xu Kangdi looked at how open-minded Xu Nankui was now, his heart was like a hemp rope, how tightly he twisted it, and his voice trembled a little: "Why? How could it not be better? ”
"In the first battle of Biansai, those people were poisoned on their knives, they couldn't be found, they couldn't be found, there was no antidote, otherwise eight thousand brides, and they weren't sisters in the capital, how could there be only more than eighty people left?"
Xu Nankui sighed, without any trace of anger, just infinite melancholy, and said, "Maybe it's to remind me, right?" Remind me that even if I am a member of this royal family, don't forget these pains. ”
Xu Kangdi raised his eyes and glanced at the place where the old concubine was sleeping, Xu Nankui followed Xu Kangdi's gaze and said, "Father, it's too late, but in half an hour, the palace people of the old concubine will come over to deliver the news." ”
Xu Kangdi still looked at it so straight, there was no sign of movement under his feet, maybe he was waiting, waiting for the slightest unrealistic possibility.
Xu Nankui understands that the current Xu Kangdi can't accept it, after all, that is his biological mother, and the former queen mother is just Xu Kangdi's adoptive mother.
Xu Nankui watched with Emperor Xu Kangdi for a while, and said first: "Actually, father, I'm glad you gave birth to me as a daughter?" I'm really grateful to you. ”
Xu Kangdi retracted his gaze, turned his head to look at this daughter who shocked him again and again, or was even more rebellious than the rumors, and said: "Do you know that this is found to be a capital crime!" And it's a capital offense that has been stinking for 10,000 years! ”
Yes, sure enough, at this time, Xu Kangdi didn't think of how to tolerate her, how to protect her, where was her biological mother! So the royal family is really a Shura field, but it's ridiculous how many people in the world still want to squeeze their heads into it and live in it, to ascend to the throne above ten thousand people under that person.
Xu Nankui withdrew the smile from the corner of his eyes, and said with a hint of seriousness: "Father, don't worry, I didn't intend to hide it, if Xu Boxing can hand over a satisfactory answer, then I will be the last stone after he ascends the throne." ”
Xu Kangdi scolded angrily: "I'm not dead yet!" That's how you became my daughter? Don't even want to say a word about the scene? ”
Xu Nankui patted Xu Kangdi's shoulder like a good daughter and said, "Father, you and I both know it, why pretend?" You can't wait, and neither can I. ”
Xu Nankui leaned his back against the arch, stretched out his hand on the next bulging plum blossom bone, and put it in the palm of his hand, with a hint of sadness, or perhaps relief, and said: "Look, father, the two of us are like flower branches that have been broken before we have seen this year's winter snow." ”
Xu Kangdi took the flower branch from Xu Nankui's hand and glanced into the distance, and the palace people of the old concubine came in a hurry.
When he saw Xu Kangdi and Xu Nankui, he fell to his knees all of a sudden, his face was sad, and he cried bitterly: "Your Majesty, the old lady is gone!" ”
Emperor Xu Kangdi stretched out his hand and handed the plum blossom to the hands of the palace people, and said: "I know, everything is handled according to the specifications of the concubine, put this plum blossom in the heart cultivation hall, and raise it." ”
The palace people didn't dare to look up at Xu Kangdi, but Xu Nankui saw it, Xu Kangdi's eyes were red, leaving tears in both places, which were quickly wiped away.
Nankui felt for a moment that maybe one of these drops was for Xu Nankui, it didn't matter.
The way she didn't dare to go, I took it for her, didn't I? Who made her and her both destined to be villains, and destined to be sacrificed?
One has a home and country in his heart, and the other has his own tasks.
There is no way to have both worlds in the world, but Xu Nankui gave her a glimmer of hope to live, and Nankui gave Xu Nankui an emotionless and ruthless solution.
Ruthless or affectionate, no one is innocent when it comes to this point.
Xu Kangdi took Xu Nankui to the Qiankun Hall again, and Xu Kangdi and Xu Nankui did not speak along the way, but when they were about to arrive at the Qiankun Palace, Xu Kangdi stopped and asked, "Why do you think you are a daughter?" ”
Xu Kangdi felt in his heart that if Xu Nankui was a boy, maybe today's Xu Nankui would be a good prince and a good emperor.
Xu Nankui chuckled and said, "Father, if I am a man, I am afraid that the crown prince will not be the turn of Bo Xing, right?" ”
Xu Kangdi did not hesitate and said: "Yes, if you are a man, you are the prince." ”
Xu Nankui's smile was a little bigger, and said: "It's a pity, this prince is not so easy to sit on, father, don't you think that even if I am a daughter, I can't be the emperor, right?" ”
Xu Kangdi looked at Xu Nankui and spit out two words firmly: "Can't!" ”
Xu Nankui tidied up her hair, and then used her underwear to completely cover the injury on her arm again, before she raised her head and said: "Father, if I want to be, I can naturally be, but I don't want to, because I am a person with a small belly, and I am also a person who must repay my teeth." ”
The more Xu Nankui said, the more confident he became, and the whole person exuded brilliance, and said: "Father, you know better than me, sitting in such a high position, what are you facing, and what are you choosing?" I'm just a person who does whatever I want in my heart, as long as I am worthy of my heart. ”
Xu Kangdi sighed and said: "A good one is worthy of his heart, and a good one is too cold in a high place, if they are as transparent as you, maybe the world is really different." ”
Xu Nankui smiled and said: "Yes, because the people of the world, princes and generals, they are all human beings, they are human beings, and what they can't get will be good, yearning, they need to be calculated, and they need to be fought for." ”
Xu Nankui stepped forward and supported Xu Kangdi and said: "They are not animals, they are not birds and beasts, as long as they reproduce, they can live, right?" ”
Xu Kangdi has stars in his eyes, he has been the emperor for so many years, and he is the most reluctant and sorry for the queen, he knows how many concessions and compromises he has made in this position.
Xu Nankui is not the slightest bit wrong in what he said, you can be willful, but the premise is that you have to give up human nature, when you are willful in such a high position, it means that every insignificant action and decision you make determines the life and death of others.
Or the life and death of the vast majority of people, you don't see it, Zhumen's wine and meat stink, and there are frozen bones on the road.
Xu Kangdi admitted that he was tempted, and for a moment he wanted to dare to do nothing in the world and set Xu Nankui as the prince, at least, she could build a different Great Xia.
Xu Kangdi, who was once young, also felt that the sentence that it was easy to fight the country and difficult to defend the country was just a joke, knowing that today, after sitting in this position for a long time, he really understood the meaning.
On the battlefield, you have a goal, you are justice, there is only us and the enemy, there is no right or wrong.
Guarding the country is not, there are interests, powers, entanglements, everything is a tangled hemp ball, can't be sorted out, cut constantly, but you can never throw it away.
You can't use right or wrong to measure the pros and cons, that's you, your eyes are no longer black and white, black is colorful black, and white can also be black to the extreme.
In the end, Xu Kangdi still gave up, because Xu Nankui saw it too thoroughly, but Xu Kangdi still had a trace of unwillingness and asked: "Since you are sure, what if I make you the prince?" ”
Xu Nankui blinked his eyes and said in a soft tone: "Father, don't laugh, I've had enough fun in this world, and you're tired, leave this kind of drudgery to Boxing." ”
Xu Kangdi knew that this was the result, but he still had to ask before he died, maybe he really wanted Xu Nankui to be the prince, or maybe he was making the last test for Xu Boxing, but it didn't matter.
Xu Kangdi smiled and patted Xu Nankui's hand and said, "Okay, just leave it to Boxing, I'm tired, you're fed up." ”
Xu Nankui put his hand on Xu Kangdi's hand and said, "Yes, father, we should also go in, after all, the queen mother has helped you delay long enough." ”